Upcoming:

Past:

  • 11/14:24: Sylvia Jones Presents Television Fathers book launch @ Greedy Reads Remington, Baltimore, MD

  • 9/22/24: Discount Guillotine Presents @ Small Works Gallery

  • 9/1/24: You Can't Kill a Poet Palooza @ Pentridge Station

  • 8/24/24: Philly Bookstore Crawl | An Evening with Four Philly Authors w/ Jiordan Castle, Eshani Surya, & Joseph Earl Thomas @ H&H Books

  • 8/8/24: Poems & A Movie: Sometimes I Dream in Farsi @ Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture w/ Violet Gehringer & Porochista Khakpour

  • 6/15/24: Hilltop Books w/ Ryan Eckes, Fani Avramopoulos, Elliott Horowitz

  • 5/15/24: World Above @ Stockton University's Noyes Art Garage

  • 4/20/24: To Make the Revolution Irresistible: The Role of the Artist in the 21st Century - Wolf 2024 Cinema & Media Studies Conference - UPenn

  • 4/16/24: Brookdale Community College Visiting Writers Series

  • 3/13/24: Rosemont College MFA Reading Series w/ Airea D. Matthews

  • 2/24/24: Cooper Street Workshop: Pens with Benefits @ The Writer’s House at Rutger’s University Camden

  • 1/4/24: exquisites Virtual Reading w/ Hot Pink Mag & Light Jacket Reading Series

  • 12/18/23: Monday Poets at Philadelphia Free Library w/ Sadie Dupuis

  • 12/6/23: Moonstone Poetry Presents: Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo & Alina Pleskova @ Fergie’s Pub

  • 11/10/23: Big Lush Reading Series

  • 11/17/23: Lot 49 w/ Isaac Pickell & Stephanie Cawley

  • 11/1/23: Hidden Palaces @ Fadensonnen w/ Warren Longmire, Laura Albert, Andrew Weatherhead

  • 10/27/23: Overflowing Poetry & Roof Books Present: Lonely Christopher, Richard Loranger, Ted Rees @ Brickbat Books

  • 10/23/23: Toska Launch @ Unnameable Books w/ Alexis Almeida, Cecily Chen, Constantine (Cea) Jones, Neon Mashurov, Gala Mukomolova, Mike Soto

  • 10/18/23: Book Launch for Edgar Kunz’s Fixer w/ Raena Shirali & Grady Chambers

  • 10/15/23: Spit Poetry w/ Marisa Crawford & Erica Lewis @ Abyssinia

  • 10/12/23: Toska Tour @ Two Dollar Radio w/ Hanif Abdurraqib, Stephanie Cawley, Raena Shirali, Kelly Xio

  • 9/30/23: Salon Salvage @ Weathered Wood w/ Stephanie Cawley, Jennifer Nelson, Kalpana Subramanian -

  • 9/20/23: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart w/ Jamaica Baldwin, K. Iver, Matthew Olzmann, T. De Los Reyes, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

  • 9/14/23: Escribe Aqui/Write Here w/ Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Dustin Brookshire, Veronica Corpuz, Catherine Esposito Prescott, Tyler Gillespie, Melissa Gomez, Judy Ireland, Alexis Ivy, Arsimmer McCoy, Juliet Romeo, KC Trommer - Virtual

  • 8/26/23: Philly Bookstore Crawl Author Celebration @ A Novel Idea

  • 8/10/23: Poet Lore & The Writer’s Center Present: Virtual Craft Chat with Alina Pleskova - In Conversation with Emily Holland

  • 8/5/23: Linda Theater

  • 7/27/23: Casa Vida Reading Series w/ Rosa Valeri Misbahi, James Milanesi, Malik Yasul Hasan Walker

  • 7/28/23: Toska Tour at Fungus Books w/ Stephanie Cawley, Melissa Dias-Mandoly, Alicia Salvadeo, Raena Shirali -

  • 7/13/23: Toska Release Celebration @ Morning Glory

  • 6/18/23: Toska Release Celebration @ Le Comptoir du Vin w/ Sadie Dupuis, Aeon Ginsberg, Anna K Crooks, Kelly Xio, Raena Shirali, Stephanie Cawley

  • 4/27/23 - Moonlight Magazine Variety Show @ Ortieb’s, 8PM w/ Elizabeth Scanlon

  • 3/29/23: One More Day on Earth Together @ Tattooed Mom w/ Sadie Dupuis, Geoff Rickly, Hazel Avery, Aeon Ginsberg, Anna K Crooks, Kelly Xio

  • 2/24/23: Poets on the Line: A Reading & Fundraiser for Striking Grad Workers at Temple U. @ Wooden Shoe Books

  • 1/30/23: Live at the Writers House / WXPN radio show @ Kelly Writer’s House, UPenn

  • 2/1/23: Poet’s Row @ The Listening Room at LMNO

  • 11/9/22 - Celebration of Ted Berrigan’s Get the Money @ The Poetry Project w/ Alice Notley, Nick Sturm, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Garrett Caples, Johnny Stanton, Kay Gabriel, Greg Masters, Alexis Almeida, Eileen Myles, Andrei Codrescu, Richard Hell, & Anne Waldman

  • 11/6/22 - Philly launch for Raena Shirali’s Gilt @ Tattooed Mom, w/ ebs, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Kim Gek Lin Short

  • 11/2/22: Moonstone Poetry Reading @ Fergie’s Pub, w/ Gina Myers & Warren Longmire

  • 10/21/22: Spit Poetry @ Abyssinia w/ Warren Longmire

  • 10/6/22 - MFA Org Presents: Local & Emerging Writers Series @ Rutgers University Camden

  • 9/28/22 - Philly launch for Too Much by Gion Davis w/ Amy Saul-Zerby & Sadie Dupuis

  • 7/27/22 - Wednesdays on the Stoop: Sex & Desire in poetryworkshop with Blue Stoop

  • 5/20/22 - Budmo! : a Ukrainian Benefit concert

  • 3/24/22: AWP off-site: Poems & Stories from the Cheburashka Collective

  • 4/5/22: Jewish Currents - Post-Soviet issue release party & reading

  • 10/20/21: Blue Stoop Wednesdays on the Stoop (virtual) - Philadelphia Poetry w/ Alina Pleskova.

  • 9/25-9/26/21: Virtual Intensive thru Philly Stables - Pens w/ Benefits: A Poetry Workshop on Eros & Sex

  • 8/14/21: Philly launch for That Ex by Rachelle Toarmino

  • 4/22/21: Kelly Writer’s House Presents: Launch for Maria Kuznetsova’s Something Unbelievable

  • 2/17/21: Philly launch for Keith Kopka’s Count Four w/ Raena Shirali, Elizabeth Scanlon, & Edgar Kunz

  • 12/20/20: Queer Poetics from the former Soviet Union w/ Galina Rymbu & Gala Mukomolova

  • 10/24/20: Doin’ it Well — Writing Poetry About Sex & Intimacy workshop w/ Rutgers University

  • 4/1/20: Kelly Writer’s House: Soviet diaspora poetry by the Cheburashka Collective

  • 1/1/20: Annual New Year’s Day Marathon reading - The Poetry Project

  • 12/10/19: You Can’t Kill a Poet

  • 11/29/19: Philly launch for Ivanna Baranova’s Confirmation Bias

  • 8/17/19: Cheburashka Collective Reading w/ Gala Mukomolova, Marina Blitshteyn, Tanya Paperny, & Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

  • 4/24/19: From Across the Waters: Poetry of the Soviet Diaspora w/ Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Ruth Madievsky, Luisa Muradyan, Tanya Paperny, & Olga lLvshin

  • 2/26/19: Sophia Shalmiyev in conversation w/ Alina Pleskova

  • 2/16/19: Philadelphia Poet reading series at A Novel Idea

  • 12/16/18: Cheburashka Collective presents Soviet Diaspora poetry w/ Gala Mukomolova, Ana Božičević, Luisa Muradyan, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Ruth Madievsky, & Karina Vahitova

  • 11/20/18: Green Line Poetry: Levin, Kolchinsky Dasbach, Pleskova, & Wisher

  • 11/9/18: 25 hours for 25 years: A Radiothon w/ Kai Davis, Genise Deal, Boston Gordon, & Julia Perch

  • 7/28/18: Sexting Ghosts Philly launch w/ Joanna C. Valente, Jenn Mccreary, & Raena Shirali

  • 7/18/18: Frank's O'Hara! w/ Raena Shirali, Gala Mukomolova, Kirwyn Sutherland, Zach Blackwood, Tyler Antoine, Jonathan Burkhalter, & Kayleb Rae Candrilli

  • 5/23/18: Frank O'Hara's Last Lover w/ Hanif Abdurraqib & Raena Shirali

  • 5/4/18: 'All the best poets are editors' w/ Camellia Grass, Raena Shirali, & Kayleb Rae Candrilli

  • 4/11/18: Hatchery Reading Series w/ Mike Deagler & Daniel Torday

  • 3/13/18: You Can't Kill a Poet w/ July Westhale, Boston Gordon, & Zach Blackwood

  • 12/14/17: Femme-tastic Xmas Special w/ Raena Shirali, Raquel Salas-Rivera, Stephanie Kaylor, & Nomi Stone

  • 9/15/17: Welcome to Boog City festival

  • 9/12/17: Random Name w/ Gala Mukomolova & Claire Skinner

  • 9/10/17: APIARY magazine's sanctuary workshop